Queensland is a poorer place for the continued failure of State and Federal Government to implement a gas reserve policy, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. The Traeger MP, who is a long-term advocate for local gas reserves and regulated pricing...
The enormous price being paid for gas in Australia at present is outrageous. For more than 10 years, the Katter’s Australian Party has been the lone wolf in the State and Federal Parliaments in saying we need a national gas reserve policy. We have advocated that it’s...
The tide may soon turn on the damage wrought to rural Queensland by the noxious prickly acacia weed. A federal funding injection into a western Queensland project, which turns the damaging weed into a valuable carbon-neutral energy source, will help bring the ground-breaking renewable energy plant...
The Palaszczuk Government needs to put its ego aside and agree to trial the kind of alternative sentencing options, such as ‘on-country sentencing’, for recidivist youth offenders that are being spear-headed in other states, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Yesterday,...
The Palaszczuk State Government looks set to deny the Queensland seafood industry a much-needed boost, with the Labor-stacked committee responsible for reviewing Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter’s Seafood Labelling Bill recommending the Bill not be passed. Mr Katter said the Committee’s refusal to support his...
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter was met with a strong show of support for his Blue Card Bill when he visited Cape York communities last week. This Bill, which is currently being considered by the Queensland Legal Affairs and Safety Committee,...
KAP Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter says the long-awaited opening of the embattled Charleston Dam and the expansion of the Terrestrial Centre will deliver economic and cultural boosts to the Etheridge Shire. Mr Katter attended the grand opening of the Charleston Dam near Forsayth...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has slammed the Department of Transport and Main Roads for its snail’s-pace approach to installing potentially lifesaving overtaking lanes on the Flinders Highway between Townsville and Charters Towers. The desperately-needed upgrades had been in the works for...
A 60 per cent increase in abortions in Queensland between 2018 – when sweeping termination of pregnancy laws were passed – and 2019 has been sanitised from history by the Palaszczuk Labor Government, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Detailing a...
Outback Queensland communities including Mount Isa, Biloela and Longreach would be an ideal home for some of the thousands of Afghan refugees seeking to escape the Taliban’s return to power, Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter said rural Queensland had been for...